summer 2007 vol xv · no 10

music · worship · arts Prismyale institute of sacred music common ground for scholarship and practice

Faculty Faces at the ISM Old Friends Return and New Friends Arrive

Martin D. Jean

As I write this, the ISM office is busy preparing for an exciting new academic year. In addition to welcoming our new students who will be profiled in the September issue of Prism, I am pleased to present some new faces on the faculty and welcome back some familiar ones. In the spring, we will be joined by Ivica Novakovic as visiting lecturer in religion and culture. Professor Novakovic is actively involved in helping us plan the 2008 ISM study tour to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia. He has studied physics, sociology, philosophy, and theology in Croatia, Switzerland, and the USA. His work is informed by these cultural contexts and he addresses transcultural and interdisciplinary questions, particularly those of theological rationality (Theology: Speculative or Combinatorial? 2004) and religious imagination (“Work on Symbols”). He has lectured in the areas of philosophical theology, systematic theology, contemporary theology, and the theology of culture (“Doing Theology in the Media Age”). More recently, he has focused his research on the problem of conceiving God’s presence and the modes of its representation and communication in music, images, and words. He is particularly interested in exploring how the sense of God’s presence can be presented in the contemporary world, where many religions and cultures meet in the context of conflict, and how it can provide a resource for reconciliation and broadening the vision of human flourishing. In the Spring, he will deliver two public lectures and as well as teach a course. (B.A., University of Zagreb; B.D., Baptist Theological Seminary in Zurich; Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary.) You have already heard the happy news that Peter Hawkins will return to Yale in fall of 2008. In the meantime, we are grateful that Traugott Lawler and Beverly Coyle return this year to lecture in religion and literature. Professor Coyle’s books on the poet Wallace Stevens preceded her turning to fiction writing and the publication of a collection of short stories and two novels: The Kneeling Bus (Ticknor and Fields, Penguin), Taken In (Viking, Penguin), and In Troubled Waters (Ticknor and Fields, Penguin). In Troubled Waters was a New York Times “Notable Book” in 1993 and named a “Ten Best Novels” selection by the American Library Association in 1994. Professor Coyle is professor emerita at Vassar College, where she was also the Mary Augusta Scott Professor of

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In Memoriam: Literature before her early retirement in 2000. Her Lana Schwebel first play,Parallel Lives, co-authored with journalist Bill Maxwell, is an autobiographical story about It is with great A.Robert Lisak growing up in the last days of Jim Crow segregation, sadness that we and premiered at American Stage Theater in 2003. announce the Her second play, A man and a woman and a blackbird, passing of our is in development. She makes her home in New York former colleague City and currently serves on the board of directors Lana Schwebel, for the organization Cross Currents, which publishes who died suddenly the critically acclaimed quarterly of the same on Saturday, July name. She will teach Playwrights and Dramatic 7 while traveling Interpretation/Performance. (B.A., Florida State abroad. Funeral University; Ph.D., University of Nebraska.) services were held Prof. Lawler is Professor on Wednesday, Emeritus of English at July 11 in Forest Yale; he taught a course on Hills, NY. Dante’s Divine Comedy From 2002 until 2006 she was assistant at the Institute in spring professor of religion and literature at the of 2007 and this year will Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity teach Four English Religious School. From 2006 until her death she was Poets. He has been writing assistant professor of English at Stern College in recent years mostly on of Yeshiva University. She is survived by her William Langland, and has parents, Philip and Lilly Schwebel, and her offered a graduate seminar on Langland six times sisters Elizabeth (Mrs. Shalom Wind) and since 1987. With four other scholars, he is working Pamela (Mrs. Gary Swickley). on a commentary on the poem in all its versions, Her lively intellect, quick wit, verve, and and is the author recently of “Langland’s Pardon- irrepressible spirit are gratefully remembered Formula: Its Ubiquity, Its Binary Shape, Its Silent by the faculty, students, and staff who were Middle Term,” in Yearbook of Language Studies fortunate enough to work and study with her 14, and “Langland and the Secular Clergy,” in YLS here. In Lana Schwebel we have lost a colleague, 16. He is also the author of The One and the Many mentor, and a charming and loving friend. in the Canterbury Tales (1980) and co-editor of The 2007-2008 Yale Literature and “Boece” for the Riverside Chaucer. He has regularly Spirituality Series is dedicated to her memory. offered informal tutorials in Latin for graduate Contributions in her memory may be made students preparing to meet the department’s Latin to Yeshiva University (www.yu.edu), Barnard requirement. In 1983 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. College (www.barnard.columbia.edu), Chabad of From 1986 to 1995 and again in 2002 to 2003, Irkutsk (www.fjc.ru/irkutsk), or to the charity of he served as Master of Ezra Stiles College. He your choice. retired in June, 2005 and is preparing, with other scholars, a commentary on the known versions of Piers Plowman, while continuing his research and remaining available to students. His other interests include Chaucer, Dante, medieval Latin, Old English, the history of the English language, and paleography. (B.A., College of the Holy Cross; M.A., University of Wisconsin; PH.D., Harvard University.)

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 A Little Help from Our Friends Fifth in a series of articles contributed by the Friends of the Institute, a group of talented professionals appointed by the director, who work in the various disciplines represented by the faculty and who serve to promote and advise on the programs, student recruitment, and activities of the Institute throughout the world. Visiting Opus 55 in its Birthplace

Nicholas Wolterstorff Derek Greten-Harrison If you follow the goings-on at ISM, you already know about Opus 55. Opus 55 is an organ. Specifically, it is the new organ commissioned by ISM being installed in the refurbished and expanded balcony of Marquand Chapel at Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. It was built by Taylor & Boody, an organ-making firm located outside Staunton, Virginia; and it gets its name from the fact that it is fifty-fifth in the series of organs built by Taylor & Boody. Last year I was a senior fellow at an institute attached to the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Since Staunton is only about thirty miles from Charlottesville, I wanted to see the organ in its birthplace, before it was shipped up to New Haven. In early May George Taylor invited my wife, Claire, and a sister of mine who was visiting us, and me, to come out to see the organ. For all three of us it was an extraordinarily moving experience, as it was for my wife and sister. I’m sure I won’t fully succeed in explaining why; but perhaps I can give some intimation. There were two persons inside my skin that day. One of those persons is a member of the advisory board of friends of ISM and a recently retired member of the YDS faculty, where I regularly taught a course in Theological Aesthetics. I retain a great deal of affection for both of these institutions. The organ made me very proud of my and worse ways of attaching one piece of wood to connections with ISM and Yale. another, the difference between better and worse The other person inside my skin that day grew ways of finishing wood. He taught me what up in a farming village in southwest Minnesota, each kind of wood is capable of and what it is not where my father was a cabinetmaker and his father, capable of. my grandfather, a cabinetmaker before him. My Sometimes, when I have tried to communicate grandparents and their family emigated from to students what a good work of philosophy is like, the Netherlands in the second decade of the last I have said that good philosophy combines vision century; and some of the woodworking tools my and craftsmanship. Though few students would grandfather took with him from the Netherlands have known it, with the word “craftsmanship” I was have been passed down to me. His first and last alluding to my own experience of being reared in a name were the same as mine; burned into the wood cabinetmaker’s family. On a few occasions I have parts of these tools are the initials N.W. even spoken, metaphorically, of making tight-fitting My father taught me how to identify different dovetails. But I noticed that a mystified expression kinds of wood and how to prize the unique qualities came over the faces of the class; so in later years I of each. And he taught me reverence for wood. He have only spoke of craftsmanship, not of dovetails. taught me that wood could be violated — that usually This was one of the two persons within the it was violated — and that to violate it is to treat God same skin who went out to see Opus 55 in its its Maker with dishonor. He thought that covering birthplace on a Friday afternoon in early May. wood with paint is usually a violation; one should The shop of Taylor & Boody is located about use clear finishes that bring out its natural beauty. five miles west of Staunton, in the stupendously And he taught me craftsmanship. He taught beautiful hills and mountains of western Virginia. me the difference between better and worse ways After luxuriating for a while in admiration of the of cutting wood, the difference between better continued on page 4  Derek Greten-Harrison Opus 55 continued from page 3

bucolic scenery — goats, sheep, cows, and horses, grazing in the valleys — we went up to the door and were greeted by George Taylor, who for the next two hours acted as if he had nothing else to do than show us around and answer our questions. Martin Jean had explained to me that if ISM was to commission a new organ, he wanted it to be meantone. I knew in a rough and ready way what meantone temperament was — though even after reading the fine article posted on ISM’s webside about the various ways of tempering keyboard instruments, the fine-mesh details elude me. But I could not quite visualize what the keyboard of such an instrument would look like. Fifteen keys to the octave, Martin told me, black keys piggy-backed on black keys. Yes, OK; but…… I now know what the keyboard looks like; I saw it! (There are also closeup pictures of the keyboard on the ISM website now.) And I now know that Opus 55 is constructed so that air pressure can be provided both by an electric motor and by a grad student stepping up and down on pedals. I know lots of other such details about this extraordinary instrument. But what bowled me over that day, when I visited Opus 55 in its birthplace, was not so much these exotica, fascinating as they were, as the fact that the people in this shop were just as interested in the visual aesthetics of the organ that day was people using their hands to shape as they were in its musical qualities. I have long material — wood, lead, leather, paint — treating that thought that it is a mistake to think of music in material with respect, drawing out its potential for purely auditory terms. This was most evident to being part of a beautiful instrument in Marquand me, some years back, when I heard a performance Chapel. High tech, we read, is taking over the world; of Messiaen’s Et expecto resurrectionem in the human beings are becoming mere robots. Call it, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The stage was Heidegger’s lament. And watch out, because the arrayed with gongs of various sizes, from relatively Chinese are getting better at it than we are. small to huge; the performance itself was like a Maybe. But there in the beautiful hills of dance, an auditory dance, if you will. western Virginia, craftsmen and craftswomen were We don’t know yet exactly what Opus 55 will lovingly using their hands to caress the natural world sound like in Marquand, though we can be pretty into glowing and singing in ways that it itself can confident. Visually, it is beautiful. George talked at never dream of. When you see and hear Opus 55, length and in detail about the various decisions that be mindful that what gave birth to this work of visual had gone into designing and decorating the case. and auditory beauty is human beings loving the But what especially moved me, as you will have natural creation with their hands. guessed, is the craftsmanship that was going into the making of this instrument, and the pride in craftsmanship that was tangible there in the Taylor & Boody shop. There is very little craftsmanship that goes into the making of an automobile; it’s

all done by people operating machines, and by Nicholas Wolterstorff is the Noah Porter Professor people operating robots which operate machines. of Philosophical Theology, There’s no hand work. Of course the Taylor & Yale University and Senior Boody shop uses electric saws and drills. But the Fellow, Institute for lead for the pipes is poured and rolled out by hand; Advanced Studies in Culture, the sheets of lead are cut by hand, bent by hand, University of Virginia. and then soldered. The wood is sanded by hand, and everything is fitted by hand. One of the young workmen, himself an organist, was painstakingly sanding a piece of walnut to make it fit just right into a pipe. I asked him why he was an organ builder. “Because it’s an obsession,” he said. I spend most of my days working with words and ideas at a computer. That’s what I am doing right now, as I compose this article. What I saw

 Joyful Noise and Indiana Jones: The Release of a New Film Made at the ISM

Margot Fassler

ISM associate producer Jacqueline Richard was offing. Our work is simple in its equipment and walking across Beinecke Plaza last month: another budget, but in conception and labor it is as complex day in the life of a documentary film maker. Her as Indiana Jones, and just as exciting. In fact, it task on this particular morning was to view is more like Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo (if you engravings of eighteenth-century Bibles for a film haven’t seen Les Blank’s documentary Burden of we are producing on J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion. Dreams about this film, do, and think of us here as About to enter the building, she ran into another you watch). The ISM studio is supported in part by filmmaker, Steven Spielberg, doubtless pondering a grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. It moves Yale the fine points of Harrison Ford’s stunts for that professors and students into partnerships with local day’s shoot. On the same day, I set out for research faith communities and studies historic performances at Sterling Library and was re-routed by Spielberg’s by students and faculty as well. The churches vision of history. The familiar streets had been become our classrooms and the wise practitioners transformed by cars from another era, and those of our teachers in the work of better understanding us not in costume couldn’t walk near Woolsey Hall. what makes church “work,” especially in the The production vehicles, though, were very much of proclamation of sacred texts in song and the building our time, and there we could see the underpinnings of congregations. In historic performances, we of our beloved professor Indiana Jones: enormous consider ways of filming concert repertories of trucks packed with enough gear to fight a war, each sacred music. guarded by its own sentinel, and stretching for Our films are not made for commercial TV or blocks all along Grove St. As I marveled at all the movie screens, but for teachers to use in classrooms equipment and people needed to make the latest of all kinds: from the halls of conservatories, sequel of Indiana Jones, I saw our ISM productions seminaries, colleges and universities, to the meeting in a whole new light. The world seemed to unfold in rooms of churches, synagogues, and centers of reverse: a “content to money” ratio danced before my adult education. Film production is only part of our eyes; as did the ironies of comparing a larger-than- work; the rest is collaboration, with students at Yale life professor of medieval subjects on the big screen encountering communities of faith and their leaders, to a real-life professor of medieval subjects who and with performers and scholars working together makes films. on projects of common interest. Because of this Yes, we make films at ISM, too, but we have cooperative work Yale students are now especially no huge trucks of gear and no car chases are in the welcome at the convent of Regina Laudis, the subject of our earlier film “Work and Pray.” Our team is now working with the priests and congregation of St. Mark’s Coptic Church in Jersey City, NJ, where we are making a film of cantor David Labib and the restoration of the Coptic chant repertory. The film we have just released,Joyful Noise, is our most complex yet: it took us six years to produce, with one complete remake two years ago. In this film, we promote the Psalms as the great songbook of the Western Christian church, with as many tunes and styles as there are congregations. We do not talk about this truth, but rather hear the Psalms sung and explicated by members of diverse groups in our region. We have worked with several congregations and choirs, and each encounter offers an opportunity to discover the Psalms in a different guise. After a smashing opening with Yale’s Schola Cantorum (this group also sings a Biber doxology at the very end of our film),Joyful Noise turns to the vibrant singing of Trinity Baptist Church in the Bronx. When we shot this congregation several years ago, I noticed two women on the sidelines as we worked through our interviews. When we were packing up they were still there, and so I went over: “Hi, who are you?” “Oh, we’re just having the ‘meeting after the meeting’.” My antennae came out: “”The meeting after the meeting?’ Can you tell me more about that?” And so it was that we met

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While Jaime Lara is on has been a frequent guest lecturer in ISM courses. leave in the Spring, we He maintains a strong interest in media and film are delighted to welcome studies and in filmmaking as a contemporary way Professor Emeritus John of expressing faith experience. Currently, he is W. Cook back to the ISM. the director of campus ministry at Sacred Heart Professor Cook also served University in Fairfield, Connecticut. His course as director of the Institute for the spring semester is entitled Theology and from 1984 to 1992. He has Cinema. (B.A, M.Div., Catholic University of been a pioneer in shaping the America, Washington, D.C.; M.F.A., University of field of religion and the arts Southern California, Los Angeles.) and our own Sally M. Promey is a former student. I would be remiss if I failed to mention that His publications have centered on the Christian Profs. Teresa Berger and Sally M. Promey have tradition in its artistic history and development from safely moved with their families to New Haven this the catacombs in the second century to the most year and will begin teaching in the fall and spring, modern expression of the faith in the contemporary respectively. To learn more about them, you can visit world. He did part of his graduate study at the our Prism archives at www.yale.edu/ism/prism/ Friedreich Wilhelm Universität in Bonn. He has prism. also served the Church as a minister in Texas and A warm welcome and best wishes to all these Connecticut. In 1992 he was appointed president new colleagues. of The Henry Luce Foundation in New York City where he retired as of January 2003. At present he is working on a documentary to be produced and broadcast by PBS on the aesthetic creations of the three Abrahamic religions: Judasiam, Christianity, and Islam. He has an honorary Ph.D. from Valparaiso University and serves on the boards of Union Theological Seminary, New York City, MOBIA, the Museum of Biblical Art, the Southwestern University Board of Advisors, the St. Paul’s Cathedral of London in America Board, The Yale Divinity School board of advisors, and the board of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library of Minnesota. He will teach Modern Christian Art and Architecture. (B.A., Baylor University; M.Div., Yale; PH.D., Yale.) Finally, we welcome back to the ISM Father Mark Villano, visiting lecturer in religion and the arts. Ordained as a Paulist priest in the Roman Catholic tradition, Rev. Villano has ministered in pastoral assignments across New CD Available

the United States. In Austin, Rodney Smith Texas, he served at an urban parish and with students from the University of Texas. In Los Angeles, he worked at parishes and the campus ministry centers at U.S.C. and U.C.L.A. For four years he was Associate Director of Campus Ministry at the Newman Center at Ohio State University in Columbus. Most recently he served as associate chaplain at St. Thomas More Catholic Center at Yale. While in Los Angeles, he was director of creative development at Paulist Productions, a film and television production company, working with writers and producers on various media projects. He was also documentary Alumni will have already received a copy of director for the “Humanitas Prize,” an annual series Rejoice!, the live recording of the 2005 concert of awards given to television and film writers who offered in celebration of Robert Baker’s musical show “humanizing achievement in writing.” At legacy. Other Prism readers who would like a Ohio State, he taught screenwriting as an adjunct copy may order one by calling the Institute at in the department of theatre. At Yale, he has taught 203-432-5180. as a visiting lecturer in religion and the arts and

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Mary Webster and Clara Williams, identical twins, Joyful Noise is distributed by the Society of exegetes par excellence, and featured speakers in Biblical Literature and paired with the book Psalms in our film. In our interview sections, Webster and Community (edited by Attridge and Fassler and now Williams as well as academics (among them Yale in its second printing). You can purchase a copy professors and the YDS dean), ministers, musicians, from Yale Divinity Book Store (in person or on-line) and congregants offer lively and cogent comments for $13.95 and at bookshops in other regions as on the Psalms, each with a different perspective. well. Pick up a copy and see what we’ve been doing There is, as Rev. Forbes says, “practically no place with film at ISM. There is a lot to experience, but that people could be coming from without the no machine guns or secret tunnels. A strange new Psalms addressing their concerns.” beauty has been born! Because much of Joyful Noise was shot during Indiana, we did it without snakes.� our 2001 Psalmody conference, you will see all three churches on the Green, including Trinity Episcopal, where we captured Anglican chant sung Joyful Noise was written and produced by Margot Fassler; by Walden Moore’s choir of men and boys. At First associate producer, Jane Huber; editing and sound, Sachin Church, we observe a workshop on early American Ramabhadran. Pictured below clockwise from top are Psalm singing led by Steven Marini of Wellesley Margot Fassler, Sachin Ramabhadran, Brian Noell and College. We encounter a second workshop on the Jacqueline Richard.

Puritan tradition in Marquand Chapel, led by then Derek Greten-Harrison ISM student Callista Brown Isabelle as well as a third on Dutch reformed psalmody featuring the organ playing and commentary of William Porter. Two other performances provide perspective on the Psalms: in Woolsey Hall, Marguerite Brooks conducts the Yale Camerata in Steven Paulus’s “Psalm 1,” a work commissioned by ISM for our conference, and Siobhán Garrigan leads a Taizé service with Sharon Fennema cantoring. Because we had wonderful footage from the nuns of Regina Laudis, we brought them back for a second act, particularly Mother Maria Nugent, who teaches Latin at the convent and acts as the sacristan. We also make the acquaintance of The English Ministry of New Haven Korean Church in Hamden, following a workshop on Psalm singing there led by Paul Huh.

Notes on the Staff

Rebecca Wexler joined the ISM staff in July as the new choral/vocal assistant and music librarian, replacing Natasha Campbell, who left with her husband Mark Vuorinen (MM cc ’07) and daughter Alina for their native Canada at the end of July. Becky received her MAR in May from the ISM Sachin Ramabhadran and Divinity School, concentrating in liturgics. Her future plans include pursuing a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, and continuing her research of the interplay between sacred and secular properties of Jewish klezmer music. She also plans to be musically active performing the clarinet onstage and in churches and synagogues, and with her two klezmer bands. Derek Greten-Harrison, the special projects assistant, will be leaving in September to pursue graduate study in opera performance at the State University of New York at Purchase. Left to right: Rebecca Wexler, Derek Greten-Harrison and The contributions — past, present, and future — Natasha Campbell of all three staffers were celebrated at a lunch in New Haven on July 25.

 alumni news

Burke Gerstenschlager (MDiv ’02) is now the Biblical Methodist Church in Madison (she got the job!); they have Studies Acquisitions Editor for T & T Clark at Continuum four grown daughters. Wilberta met John in Indiana when International Publishing Group in New York City. In 2005, they were fourteen years old; they have four daughters and he was published as a contributor to “Fair Play: The Moral one son. Dilemmas of Spying” by James M. Olson, former CIA Chief of The Rev. Robert A. Schilling (UTS-MSM ‘59), a 1956 graduate Counterintelligence. Burke has also been published in “The of Boston University School of Theology, was presented with Modern Review” and “Eastwesterly Review”. He spends his that school’s Distinguished Alumnus Award on May 19, 2007. time watching films with his partner, Michele, and their two He played the organ for the Alumni Reunion Service in B.U.’s cats. Currently, Burke is slogging through Augustine’s “City Marsh Chapel that day. Although he officially retired in 2002 of God” with little hope in sight. after 41 years as Minister of Worship and the Arts at North Dan Locklair’s (UTS SMM ’73) In Memory H.H.L. will United Methodist Church, Indianapolis, IN, he remains active be presented by the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, Kirk in various musical and administrative capacities both locally Trevor conducting, on Saturday, June 30, 7:30 PM, at the and nationally. He is the program coordinator and a recitalist Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts, 203 South 9th Street in for the July 2007 national convention of the Organ Historical Columbia, Missouri. The Locklair string orchestra work was Society in central Indiana. Bob is married to Dr. Rita S. written in 2005 in memory of his mother. Maestro Trevor Schilling, a retired educator. They have six children and nine has written this about the piece after recording it with grandchildren. the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, “…As a conductor Dr. Carol Williams (AD-o ’97) has recently given concerts we are often looking for that five minute adagio to fit into at the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, Birmingham our programming, and now we have a second option to Symphony Hall, UK. Plus, the opening concert of the the Barber from a wonderful living American composer.” International Summer Organ Festival in Balboa Park, San Maestro Trevor’s recording will be released on the Naxos Diego where she was joined by her predecessors Robert label later this year. For tickets and information, call the Plimpton and Jared Jacobsen. Carol’s future concerts include Missouri Theatre box office at (573) 875-0600. Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, West Point Cadet Chapel, Ellouise Skinner Beatty (SMM ’52) and her husband New York and Ocean Grove Auditorium in New Jersey. Also Marvin Beatty recently visited her UTS roommate Wilberta she will be performing at the Dudelange Organ Festival Naden Pickett (SMM ’52) and her husband John Pickett in Luxembourg and the Organ Festival in Monaco. Later while they were attending Indiana University’s family Camp this Summer the first of the DVD series “TourBus” will be Brosius on Elkhart Lake near Sheboygan, WI with several released and details can be seen on her website members of their family. Ellouise and Marvin met when www.melcot.com. he was on the committee that interviewed her for the job as Organist/Director at the Wesley Foundation/University

More CDs by ISM Artists

The new Schola CD of Bertali’s Missa Resurrectionis, recording of Tournemire’s The Seven Last Words of published on the reZound label, is featured (with Christ, published on the Loft label. Both CDs are a mention on the cover) in the new Gothic catalog. available online at www.gothic-catalog.com. Schola Also in the catalog is Martin Jean’s Woolsey Hall is pictured below in France during their recent tour.

 faculty news

Teresa Berger, Professor of Liturgical Studies, gave a paper During the 2006-2007 academic year, Margot E. Fassler, at the XXI Congress of Societas Liturgica in Palermo, Sicily Robert Tangeman Professor of Music History, wrote and in August, entitled “Gender and Sacred Space, between produced the film Joyful Noise: Psalms in Community (Yale Domesticity and the Public Square.” As part of the paper, Institute of Sacred Music, 2007; distributed by the Society of She presented footage from the DVD she co-produced with Biblical Literature); Jane Huber was the associate producer FireStream Media earlier this year, Worship in Women’s and Sachin Ramabhadran the editor. The book she co-edited Hands. See www.worshipinwomenshands.com for more with Harold Attridge, Psalms in Community: Jewish and information. Christian Textual, Liturgical, and Artistic Traditions (Brill and the Society of Biblical Literature, 2003) has been re-issued Patrick Evans, Associate professor in the practice of sacred in a second printing. Two articles by Fassler appeared: music, traveled to Uganda in May as part of a team of “Adventus in Chartres,” in Ceremonial Culture in the Pre- church musicians/teachers invited by the United Methodist Modern World, Nicholas Howe, ed. (University of Notre Bishop of East Africa. The team worked with church Dame Press, 2007); and “Hildegard and the Song of Songs,” in musicians, pastors, and lay leaders from Sudan, Kenya, Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs, Peter Hawkins and Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda. The members of the team Lesleigh Cushing, eds. (Fordham University Press, 2006). She taught voice, keyboard, guitar, worship planning, liturgical co-edited with Bryan Spinks the latest issue of the journal theology, and music theory, and learned traditional East Colloquium (Yale Institute of Sacred Music) and served as African songs and instruments. faculty advisor for the accompanying DVD; she also taught Evans also served as director of music for Seattle in the mini-course “A Theological Sampler” (June, 2007) University’s Summer Institute for Liturgy and Worship, joining several YDS colleagues. Fassler chaired sessions at working with Gordon Lathrop and Glaucia Vasoncelos- the American Musicological Society in Los Angeles and the Wilkey to plan and lead nine worship services throughout International Musicological Society in Zurich, Switzerland. the week, and giving a plenary address “Re-sounding She presented (in French) the talk “Fulbert après Fulbert” the Sacred Harp: Reclaiming the Assembly’s Song.” With at a symposium organized in Chartres to celebrate the Siobhán Garrigan (Assistant professor of liturgical studies), millennial year of Fulbert’s election as bishop; she gave the he presented workshops and led worship for the conference talks ”Liturgy and History in around the Year 1000” at the Going Forward Together: Third Millenium Christianity at St. University of Pennsylvania and “Engelberg 103: A Source Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, VA. for the Study of Hildegard?” (with Tova Choate) at the Evans also was director of music for the Haystack 200th International Musicological Society, Zurich, 2007, and traveled Celebration at Williams College, was keynote speaker the to Engelberg to study the manuscript. Fassler continues Tallahassee AGO Church Music Conference, and presented to serve on the Committee of Honor for Les Amis de la workshops and led worship for Presbytery of Great Rivers Cathédrale de Chartres; she was elected to the American in Illinois. Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. The mezzo-soprano Judith Malafronte, lecturer in voice, recently spent a week in China, where she gave master classes in Guangzhou and Xian. She was impressed by the high level of singing, but saddened that international study and work opportunities are lacking for most of these artists. Markus Rathey, associate professor of music history, has recently published two articles on Johann Sebastian Bach’s vocal works. The recent issue of the Bach-Journal contains a study of the cantatas “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen” (BWV 12) and “Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele” (BWV 69a) (“Two unlikely sisters:The ‘Cross’ and the ‘crosses’ in BWV 12 and 69a,” Bach 2007, p. 1–44). The comparison between these two pieces focuses on the way the theological concept of suffering and submission to will of God is encoded in music. The second piece appeared as lead article in the July issue of Choral Journal. It is an outline of Bach’s compositional development as seen in the vocal works performed on December 25, 1723 (“Christmas 1723 – Johann Sebastian Bach’s Artistic Evolution,” Choral Journal July 2007, p. 14-23). The research for this article led to the Bach program Patrick Evans with Brian Sajjabi, musician for the Loving Example the Schola performed with guest conductor Helmuth Rilling United Methodist Church, Mukono, Uganda in January 2007.

 placement listings

Connecticut

First Evangelical Lutheran Church, West Haven The Parish of Christ’s Church, Easton Organist/Choir Director (Part time). Small ELCA Lutheran Music Minister (part-time). Episcopal parish seeking music congregation seeks musician for one service a week and minister in this growing and vibrant parish. The music festivals. Would play 1995 Ahlborn-Galanti “Chronicler I” minister will play our electric Allen organ (piano also Digital Organ, lead small choir and arrange for special music available) at the 10:30 service, and rehearse the choir either (by volunteer vocal and instrumental soloists.) Additional prior to the service, and/or at another convenient time. The income from weddings, funerals and teaching possible. successful candidate will have a good sense of humor, feel Please send resumes to; Vicar Kevin Grinder, First Evangelical at ease working with children and adults, and be interested Lutheran Church, 52 George St., West Haven, CT 06516 or in learning and teaching new music. While we primarily use email at [email protected] the 1982 Hymnal, we also enjoy LEVAS and Taize. We are a parish with a bit more than half of our members under 17, and First Church of Christ, Congregational, Redding are looking to involve our children and youth in the music Music Director/Organist (part-time). Vibrant 600+ member program. For more information, please contact The Rev. Ellen congregation seeks a Music Director/Organist to provide Huber at [email protected]. professional direction, structure, and vision to the church’s music program. Opportunity to work with outstanding St. Andrew Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bristol ministerial team, dedicated choir, and music committee Minister of Music (part-time) Seeking a multi-talented to apply your leadership to the continued development of musician to accompany one Sunday service and lead voice our strong, church-wide music tradition. Work with youth and bell choirs. Must have good interpersonal skills and choirs, bell choir, etc. on an exciting range of music for both enjoy working collaboratively with staff and lay leaders. worship and other musical activities. For information, call Flexible schedule averaging 15 hours per week with Mr. Marc W. Bono at 917-696-8032 or mail resume to the competitive compensation per AGO guidelines. Resumes First Church of Christ, Congregational, Redding at 25 Cross accepted via mail or e-mail. Contact Pastor Paul Krampitz Highway, Redding, CT. (YDS ‘01) at 860-583-5809 (office 401-575-1117 (cell) or [email protected]. First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan, New Canaan Associate Organist (part-time). Duties include playing for the St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, Hamden fifty-voice choir during Thursday evening rehearsal and one Cantor. St. Stephen’s Catholic Church is looking for a cantor Sunday morning service, and providing the occasional solo to lead the congregation during Mass. Cantoring experience voluntary and postlude for six Sundays during the summer. and knowledge of Catholic liturgy is encouraged. Pay is $150 The successful candidate will possess excellent performance for three masses (one Saturday, and two on Sunday). Please skills and experience accompanying classical choral contact Father Bob Heffernan, at 203-288-6439. repertoire. This is an opportunity to work with one of CT’s Trinity Emmanuel Church in Stamford, CT larger church choirs in a dynamic program, beginning Sept. Organist/Choir director (part-time). Seeking musician for 2007. Salary: $21,500/yr. Send resume to Dr. Sean McCarthy at traditional Sunday morning Episcopal service (10 am), and a [email protected]. musician and/or worship leader for an ‘alternative’ Sunday Section Leaders: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass. One Thursday evening service (5 pm) to be launched in Spring ’08. We would evening rehearsal and one Sunday morning service. $150/ like a skilled organist who can also play piano in a variety of week, Sept. through June. Additional compensation for styles (folk-rock; country, blues, gospel), who has an affinity for Monday evening rehearsals and concerts in Nov. and Dec. and familiarity with the contemporary Christian repertoire, To apply for an audition, please send resume to Dr. Sean and an ability to work with an amateur band. Weekly band McCarthy, Minister of Music at [email protected]. and/or choir rehearsals would be needed, and a monthly Grace Lutheran Church, Stratford worship planning team meeting. We would love to find Minister of Music (part-time). Seeking organist and/or one person who can do both services, but would be happy pianist who will lead worship for two Sunday morning to talk to people who are only interested in one. The salary worship services and direct adult choir and bell choir range is $15-20,000. Please contact the Rev. Kate Heichler at with weekly rehearsals. Additional hours for seasonal and [email protected], 203-322-6991, if you are special celebrations. Salary negotiable, range from $17,000 interested. Applicants of any or no denomination are welcome. to $21,000 depending on experience. Position is 15 hours a week with seasonal adjustments. Contact Pr. Joan Sorenson, [email protected] or 203-375-3151. Norton Presbyterian Church, Darien Organist (part-time). The duties for this position include: playing the organ & keyboard at both Sunday Sanctuary services starting August 12th, 2007, rehearsing the choir one night per week and on Sunday mornings as arranged by the music director, having first refusal for all weddings and funerals, and providing additional assistance with music groups as available and negotiated with the music director. Salary is commensurate with experience and ability. To schedule an audition with the Music Director, Dwayne Condon or for more information about the position please contact MaryAnne Northrop, 655-1451 x 18 or email: [email protected].

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The First Church UCC, Nashua, NH Church is not a necessity, but some prior musical interaction Music Minister/Director of Music (full-time). The First Church with children, reliable organ skills, and choral directing UCC, established in 1685, is seeking a dynamic individual with experience is preferred. Salary is in the range $35,000 with developed leadership qualities to serve as an administrator full benefits. A résumé with at least three references and for a fully established music program. We invite highly skilled letter of inquiry may be sent to Daniel Fortune (organist applicants with choral and hand bell experience. The ability and choirmaster) via e-mail: [email protected]. A of the Minister/Director to play the organ or piano is not a detailed job description will be sent upon request. requirement; however, it would enhance the position. The St. James Episcopal Church, North Salem, NY Director will be responsible for coordinating service music Organist (quarter-time). Responsibilities include playing a 120 with the Senior Minister and staff for weekly Sunday services, year-old Odell pipe organ at one church service on Sundays, special services, and wedding and funeral services. In addition for one rehearsal on Thursday evenings, and for a number of to musical expertise, applicants must possess superb special services such as Christmas and Easter. organizational and communicative skills. Qualifications: Masters Degree or equivalent experience in Choral Conducting St. John’s Episcopal Church, Walpole, NH or Sacred Music; strong foundation in sacred music required. Organist and Choir Director (part-time). Warm, welcoming, and Salary: A competitive, negotiable compensation package will music-loving congregation in the Episcopal Diocese of New be offered based upon education, competence, and experience. Hampshire seeks an organist and choir director. The church’s instrument is an Allen double keyboard, 32-pedal electronic Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Columbus, OH organ (about 5 years old). The position responsibilities include Director of Music Ministry (part-time) The Director of Music providing music for all services and directing/accompanying Ministry will have overall responsibility for music throughout the eight member choir. Knowledge of Episcopal liturgy is the life of our congregation including two Sunday services and helpful, but not necessary. Time required is about two and special lent and holiday services. Creative development of new a half to three hours each Sunday for choir rehearsal and music ministries that enhance involvement of congregation the service. (Additional services possible on certain liturgical members is expected. Specific responsibilities include holidays.) If interested, please call or email the Rev. Susan du organ/piano, and leadership of adult choir, praise band/choir, Puy Kershaw at 756-4533 ([email protected]). children’s choir, bell choir and instrumental groups. Assets include a 3-manual, 33 rank Bunn-Minnick Organ, Charles St. Michael Lutheran Church, Perry Hall, MD R. Walter grand piano, harpsichord, 5 octaves of handbells, Director of Music/Organist. Seeking musician to lead a timpani, and talented amateur musicians, both vocal and well-established music ministry that includes multiple vocal instrumental (violin, recorder, oboe, flute, elect. bass, guitar, and instrumental groups. Our ministry could be led by one percussion, brass, others). Requirements: Bachelor’s degree/ full-time person or multiple part-time people. The successful music major, with additional experience in choral conducting/ candidate(s) will fit well within the congregation’s leadership rehearsing, organ and piano preferred. For information team, demonstrate strong faith, the ability to work well contact Richard Reuning at 614-451-8710, email: rreuning@ with musicians of all ages and abilities, good organizational columbus.rr.com, or visit www.gethsemane.org. skills, proficiency on the organ and piano, and hold at least a bachelor’s degree in music or equivalent experience. Salary North Naples United Methodist Church, Naples, FL and benefits based on education/experience. Please send cover Organist/Staff Accompanist (3/4-to-full time). Candidate must letter and resume to [email protected]. show familiarity with a variety of music styles i.e. traditional, classical, folk, jazz and contemporary, including the ability to extemporize or improvise. The Organist/Accompanist will provide music for weekly worship in cooperation with musicians, ministers and lay persons. The individual must be able to communicate and work as a team player under the leadership of the Music Director. Duties include but are not limited to accompanying singing choirs, ensembles and Other Opportunities soloists for worship and special events. Vacation and benefits included. The ideal candidate will have at least 1-3 years Improvipalooza! This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Von Beckerath experience, B.A., M.A., Doctorate in Music or related field. Organ at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan. To Please respond by e-mailing resume to ruthanneg@nnumc. mark the occasion, we are holding a week-long festival org, fax resume to 239-593-7609, or mail resume to North of master classes and concerts all based on the art of Naples United Methodist Church, 6000 Goodlette Rd., Naples, improvisation this coming October, from the 15th through FL 34109 EOE the 19th. The event will feature artists from around the Old St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Baltimore, MD globe, such as Robert Rigell, Otto Krämer, Robert Houssart, Assistant Organist and Choirmaster (full-time). Within our and Gerben Mourik. For more information, visit comprehensive music program we have a Boys’ Choir and www.improvipalooza.org, or contact John Cantrell at a Girls’ Choir who sing with the professional choir men at 212.222.2700 x 24. the 11 a.m. Sunday service, as well as a professional octet with volunteers who sing for the 9 am Eucharist. We are looking for someone who might feel equally comfortable accompanying, and assisting in the training of the choristers in the choral music of the Anglican tradition, yet be the primary musician and creative musical force for our more informal 9 am service. Prior experience in the Episcopal

11 Derek Greten-Harrison Fanfare! A celebration of the new Taylor & Boody organ in Marquand Chapel Inauguration Weekend October 4–6, 2007

Lecture: The Lowell Mason Codex Harald Vogel October 4 Thursday • 12:30 pm • Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Room 39 Organ Recital: Harald Vogel Music of Buxtehude and others October 5 Friday • 8 pm • October 6 Saturday • 3 pm • Marquand Chapel Fanfare! World premiere of Matthew Suttor’s Syntagma, Martin Jean, organ; Yale Schola Cantorum performs Te Deum: Herr Gott, dich loben wir for 4 choirs by Hieronymus Praetorius With Piffaro Renaissance Band, Joan Kimball and Robert Wiemken, artistic directors October 6 Saturday • 8 pm • Marquand Chapel

Reserved seating for concerts in Marquand Chapel; call 203-432-9671.

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